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** In the ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E09ProjectDaedalus Project Daedalus]]", our heroes have to infiltrate Section 31's HQ. Since the AI protecting the station can anticipate their maneuvers, the bridge officers call out a random series of evasive patters for Detmer to use to confuse the AI.
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* Justified in ''Literature/RedStormRising'' by Tom Clancy. When Soviet bombers are making a last-ditch attack on the American-led NATO strike fleet that is tasked with retaking Iceland, one of the radar controllers orders the carrier aircraft into Plan Delta. From the context of the scene, this is presumably the plan worked up to deal with bombers closing from two directions, with heavy radar jamming support. Also, since Strike Fleet Atlantic had been clobbered by Soviet bombers much earlier in the book, having multiple plans to deal with the threat a second time makes good tactical sense.
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* Justified in ''Literature/RedStormRising'' by Tom Clancy.Clancy: Justified. When Soviet bombers are making a last-ditch attack on the American-led NATO strike fleet that is tasked with retaking Iceland, one of the radar controllers orders the carrier aircraft into Plan Delta. From the context of the scene, this is presumably the plan worked up to deal with bombers closing from two directions, with heavy radar jamming support. Also, since Strike Fleet Atlantic had been clobbered by Soviet bombers much earlier in the book, having multiple plans to deal with the threat a second time makes good tactical sense.
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* Subverted in one of the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' novels, when an ex-government assassin gets mentally caught up in his training, and starts barking out code names for maneuvers to his teammates... who are street-thugs with no clue what he's talking about.
* In ''[[Literature/{{Ringworld}} The Ringworld Throne]]'', Luis Wu teaches Chmee's son Acolyte the value of predetermined actions, and in training until performing said actions are second nature. He compares it to an astronaut being trained so that the first thing he does in an emergency situation is put on his pressure suit without actually having to think about doing it, and then asks if wtsai (the Kzinti knife-fighting martial art in which Acolyte has been trained) has a "a default maneuver; a move that is used when you are surprised or if you aren't really sure which move to use." Turns out there is one: the disembowel.
* In the ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Sea of Monsters]]'', Percy Jackson and company use "Attack Plan Macedonia" on the Cyclops Polyphemus. It doesn't work so well for them.
* ''The True Game'' has a wide variety of these, whose names are derived from the setting's CharacterClassSystem (twelve individual magical talents in various combinations). The first three books (in order of publication) are named after some of these, specifically ''King's Blood Four'', ''Necromancer Nine'', and ''Wizard's Eleven''.
* In the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', O'Neal develops a series of "plays", like those used in American football, to describe basic maneuvers for [[PoweredArmor ACS]] troopers to perform when on the battlefield, for the sake of short commands that can be spoken quickly.
* Played with in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' novel ''Pool of Darkness'', in which the evil but not overly competent Red Wizard Marcus explains his plan for taking the city of Phlan with his army to his rather more professional undead general -- who proceeds to patiently translate the individual maneuvers into proper military jargon as his [[PointyHairedBoss "master"]] "explains" them to him...
* In the Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo-series book ''1634: The Baltic War'', the only response Admiral Simpson needs to make to [[spoiler:the Dane's ambush with a flotilla of torpedo boats attacking under cover of thick smoke]] is to pass the following order to his captain: "Have Ajax take the lead, then Achilles. The ironclads will follow behind them, and the squadron will assume Formation Charlie on a heading of zero-niner-five."
* In ''[[Literature/{{Ringworld}} The Ringworld Throne]]'', Luis Wu teaches Chmee's son Acolyte the value of predetermined actions, and in training until performing said actions are second nature. He compares it to an astronaut being trained so that the first thing he does in an emergency situation is put on his pressure suit without actually having to think about doing it, and then asks if wtsai (the Kzinti knife-fighting martial art in which Acolyte has been trained) has a "a default maneuver; a move that is used when you are surprised or if you aren't really sure which move to use." Turns out there is one: the disembowel.
* In the ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Sea of Monsters]]'', Percy Jackson and company use "Attack Plan Macedonia" on the Cyclops Polyphemus. It doesn't work so well for them.
* ''The True Game'' has a wide variety of these, whose names are derived from the setting's CharacterClassSystem (twelve individual magical talents in various combinations). The first three books (in order of publication) are named after some of these, specifically ''King's Blood Four'', ''Necromancer Nine'', and ''Wizard's Eleven''.
* In the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', O'Neal develops a series of "plays", like those used in American football, to describe basic maneuvers for [[PoweredArmor ACS]] troopers to perform when on the battlefield, for the sake of short commands that can be spoken quickly.
* Played with in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' novel ''Pool of Darkness'', in which the evil but not overly competent Red Wizard Marcus explains his plan for taking the city of Phlan with his army to his rather more professional undead general -- who proceeds to patiently translate the individual maneuvers into proper military jargon as his [[PointyHairedBoss "master"]] "explains" them to him...
* In the Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo-series book ''1634: The Baltic War'', the only response Admiral Simpson needs to make to [[spoiler:the Dane's ambush with a flotilla of torpedo boats attacking under cover of thick smoke]] is to pass the following order to his captain: "Have Ajax take the lead, then Achilles. The ironclads will follow behind them, and the squadron will assume Formation Charlie on a heading of zero-niner-five."
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Subverted in one of the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' novels, when an ex-government assassin gets mentally caught up in his training, and starts barking out code names for maneuvers to his teammates... who are street-thugs with no clue what he's talking about.
*In ''[[Literature/{{Ringworld}} The Ringworld Throne]]'', ''Literature/TheRingworldThrone'': Luis Wu teaches Chmee's son Acolyte the value of predetermined actions, and in training until performing said actions are second nature. He compares it to an astronaut being trained so that the first thing he does in an emergency situation is put on his pressure suit without actually having to think about doing it, and then asks if wtsai (the Kzinti knife-fighting martial art in which Acolyte has been trained) has a "a default maneuver; a move that is used when you are surprised or if you aren't really sure which move to use." Turns out there is one: the disembowel.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Inthe ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians ''The Sea of Monsters]]'', Monsters'', Percy Jackson and company use "Attack Plan Macedonia" on the Cyclops Polyphemus. It doesn't work so well for them.
*''The True Game'' ''Literature/TheTrueGame'' has a wide variety of these, whose names are derived from the setting's CharacterClassSystem (twelve individual magical talents in various combinations). The first three books (in order of publication) are named after some of these, specifically ''King's Blood Four'', ''Necromancer Nine'', and ''Wizard's Eleven''.
*In the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'', ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'': O'Neal develops a series of "plays", like those used in American football, to describe basic maneuvers for [[PoweredArmor ACS]] troopers to perform when on the battlefield, for the sake of short commands that can be spoken quickly.
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Played with inthe ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' novel ''Pool of Darkness'', in which the evil but not overly competent Red Wizard Marcus explains his plan for taking the city of Phlan with his army to his rather more professional undead general -- who proceeds to patiently translate the individual maneuvers into proper military jargon as his [[PointyHairedBoss "master"]] "explains" them to him...
* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Inthe Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo-series book ''1634: The Baltic War'', the only response Admiral Simpson needs to make to [[spoiler:the Dane's ambush with a flotilla of torpedo boats attacking under cover of thick smoke]] is to pass the following order to his captain: "Have Ajax take the lead, then Achilles. The ironclads will follow behind them, and the squadron will assume Formation Charlie on a heading of zero-niner-five."
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